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The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese citizens. Determined by the Civil Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the koseki is also an ideological structure, which has produced patriarchal control through single-surname households.Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, this book engages with issues of

Title : Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege
Author : Linda White
Language : en
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Uploaded : Apr 03, 2021

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